{
  "id": "1304.5614",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2013-04-20T09:14:48.000Z",
  "updated": "2013-12-06T17:46:42.000Z",
  "title": "Upper limit on the flux of photons with energies above 10^19 eV using the Telescope Array surface detector",
  "authors": [
    "T. Abu-Zayyad",
    "R. Aida",
    "M. Allen",
    "R. Anderson",
    "R. Azuma",
    "E. Barcikowski",
    "J. W. Belz",
    "D. R. Bergman",
    "S. A. Blake",
    "R. Cady",
    "B. G. Cheon",
    "J. Chiba",
    "M. Chikawa",
    "E. J. Cho",
    "W. R. Cho",
    "H. Fujii",
    "T. Fujii",
    "T. Fukuda",
    "M. Fukushima",
    "D. Gorbunov",
    "W. Hanlon",
    "K. Hayashi",
    "Y. Hayashi",
    "N. Hayashida",
    "K. Hibino",
    "K. Hiyama",
    "K. Honda",
    "T. Iguchi",
    "D. Ikeda",
    "K. Ikuta",
    "N. Inoue",
    "T. Ishii",
    "R. Ishimori",
    "D. Ivanov",
    "S. Iwamoto",
    "C. C. H. Jui",
    "K. Kadota",
    "F. Kakimoto",
    "O. Kalashev",
    "T. Kanbe",
    "K. Kasahara",
    "H. Kawai",
    "S. Kawakami",
    "S. Kawana",
    "E. Kido",
    "H. B. Kim",
    "H. K. Kim",
    "J. H. Kim",
    "J. H. Kim",
    "K. Kitamoto",
    "S. Kitamura",
    "Y. Kitamura",
    "K. Kobayashi",
    "Y. Kobayashi",
    "Y. Kondo",
    "K. Kuramoto",
    "V. Kuzmin",
    "Y. J. Kwon",
    "J. Lan",
    "S. I. Lim",
    "S. Machida",
    "K. Martens",
    "T. Matsuda",
    "T. Matsuura",
    "T. Matsuyama",
    "J. N. Matthews",
    "M. Minamino",
    "K. Miyata",
    "Y. Murano",
    "I. Myers",
    "K. Nagasawa",
    "S. Nagataki",
    "T. Nakamura",
    "S. W. Nam",
    "T. Nonaka",
    "S. Ogio",
    "M. Ohnishi",
    "H. Ohoka",
    "K. Oki",
    "D. Oku",
    "T. Okuda",
    "A. Oshima",
    "S. Ozawa",
    "I. H. Park",
    "M. S. Pshirkov",
    "D. C. Rodriguez",
    "S. Y. Roh",
    "G. I. Rubtsov",
    "D. Ryu",
    "H. Sagawa",
    "N. Sakurai",
    "A. L. Sampson",
    "L. M. Scott",
    "P. D. Shah",
    "F. Shibata",
    "T. Shibata",
    "H. Shimodaira",
    "B. K. Shin",
    "J. I. Shin",
    "T. Shirahama",
    "J. D. Smith",
    "P. Sokolsky",
    "B. T. Stokes",
    "S. R. Stratton",
    "T. Stroman",
    "S. Suzuki",
    "Y. Takahashi",
    "M. Takeda",
    "A. Taketa",
    "M. Takita",
    "Y. Tameda",
    "H. Tanaka",
    "K. Tanaka",
    "M. Tanaka",
    "S. B. Thomas",
    "G. B. Thomson",
    "P. Tinyakov",
    "I. Tkachev",
    "H. Tokuno",
    "T. Tomida",
    "S. Troitsky",
    "Y. Tsunesada",
    "K. Tsutsumi",
    "Y. Tsuyuguchi",
    "Y. Uchihori",
    "S. Udo",
    "H. Ukai",
    "G. Vasiloff",
    "Y. Wada",
    "T. Wong",
    "M. Wood",
    "Y. Yamakawa",
    "R. Yamane",
    "H. Yamaoka",
    "K. Yamazaki",
    "J. Yang",
    "Y. Yoneda",
    "S. Yoshida",
    "H. Yoshii",
    "X. Zhou",
    "R. Zollinger",
    "Z. Zundel"
  ],
  "comment": "7 pages, 5 figures",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev.D 88, 112005 (2013)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.88.112005",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE",
    "hep-ex",
    "hep-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We search for ultra-high energy photons by analyzing geometrical properties of shower fronts of events registered by the Telescope Array surface detector. By making use of an event-by-event statistical method, we derive upper limits on the absolute flux of primary photons with energies above 10^19, 10^19.5 and 10^20 eV based on the first three years of data taken.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2013-12-06T17:46:42.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "98.70.Sa",
      "96.50.sb",
      "96.50.sd"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "telescope array surface detector",
      "ultra-high energy photons",
      "data taken",
      "primary photons",
      "absolute flux"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review D",
      "year": 2013,
      "month": "Dec",
      "volume": 88,
      "number": 11,
      "pages": 112005
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 7,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1229262,
      "adsabs": "2013PhRvD..88k2005A"
    }
  }
}